Plant Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Summary:

The Maintenance Manager will oversee all equipment for the plant. They will develop, implement and improve process control systems on all plant equipment.

Maintenance Manager Responsibilities:

• Initiate preventive maintenance programs to minimize maintenance cost of all production equipment.
• Execute assignments related to maintenance of machinery and equipment.
• Responsible for relocating machinery and/or equipment; dismantling and removing obsolete or worn out machinery and/or equipment.
• Plan the performance of preventative maintenance activities based upon personal knowledge and interval records of equipment wear and the manufacturer’s recommendations regarding service.
• Develop and maintain key, preferred suppliers and spare part inventories.
• Schedule work to prevent idle time and to provide maximum machine utilization.
• Schedule overtime work among maintenance employees to equalize overtime fairly.
• Determine priority of maintenance job back‑log and schedule work accomplished.
• Responsible for up‑grading the effectiveness of maintenance personnel.
• Schedule and conduct meetings with instructions relating to maintenance skills, safety, and company policy.
• Handle all job‑related problems in maintenance honestly and fairly without violation of company policies or procedures.
• Ensure team members have the appropriate safety and health; accident prevention; and investigation training.
• Provide leadership in developing measures and practices that prevent accidents and ensure compliance with OSHA standards.
• Provide troubleshooting of production equipment to support manufacturing and maintenance operations.
• Respond to critical production down situations affecting manufacturing.
• Maintain maintenance software database that controls all preventive and predictive maintenance processes on facilities and equipment.
• Generate and maintain PM schedule.
• Responsible for all plant utilities and seek ways to reduce costs.
• Comply with all company safety policies, procedures and rules.

Education /

Skills:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Must have recent experience in a manufacturing plant, preferably automotive.
• Excellent communication skills and must possess the ability to supervise and motivate employees in a team environment.
• Expert working knowledge of all machine components and integration.
• Proven mechanical aptitude for analytical problem solving.
• Work with engineering and quality to address problem areas and collectively come up and implement solutions.